Why James Chartrand Wears Womenâ€™s Underpants “James” outs herself as a woman, then explains how she wound up posing as a male writer, and how different her experiences were when writing under her own name. There have been several interesting followups:

Kate Harding drew parallels with the use of male pseudonyms by book authors in the past and, perhaps less well-known, in the present.

Amanda Hess observed that Chartrand had cultivated a very masculine writing persona, including using naked women to illustrate posts, describing one of her employees as “the teamâ€™s rogue woman” in “a good olâ€™ boys club”, and buying into stereotypes when writing about women.

We linked to Part 1 of Arachne Jericho’s series of posts on fictional portrayals of PTSD, but there aren’t forward links from that to the later posts. Check out the rest of the series: Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. A wrap-up post is planned.

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